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Animal Kingdom Adventures
After checking into the condo and sorting through stuff it was off to our park of the day. We get back into the car and head out for our 15min trip to AK. Well it would have been 15 min's if Mark hadn't accidently turned onto Hotel Plaza Blvd, but a quick u turn and we were back on track. Between our phone navigation and all of the signs we easily found AK and those glorious mountains peaking out at us. I'm very excited to see Pandora. I loved the movie and have anxiously been awaiting to see Pandora for myself. I have been very good about avoiding any videos and most pictures of it here on the Dis, as I didn't want to spoil it. I actually did pretty good with that as many things were new to me.
The plans for today
EE FP 12:40-1:40pm
Yak & Yeti ADR 1:15pm
ROL FP 5:50-6:50
NRJ FP 6:50-7:50pm
We arrived at the parking booth a little after noon. The attendant asked us if we wanted standard parking or preferred parking. We knew standard parking was $20 but asked what preferred parking was. She said that you get to park within a 7 min walk to the entrance, you'll receive a free bottle of water and a free map. After I snorted out my chuckle Mark told her we would take standard parking. We parked and took the tram up to the front of the park. Mark texted me our location so we could find our car when leaving. We've had issues in the past remembering our location, but we did this throughout our trip and it worked well for us.
Todays temperatures had an expected high of 78F. I was so happy for these temps. The last time we were here Mark got very irritable with the heat in the 90's and we left the park after just a few hours to head back to AKL pool. Coming from Indy I was enjoying the feel of the sun on my skin once again. I love Indy but believe it or not I'm allergic to the cold and will break out in hives if my skin gets too cold. Even slipping under cold sheets will make me itch.
We arrived at the front of the park at 12:20pm we were bagless so we breezed into the park and waited in the short line in front of the Christmas tree for a PP photo.. We had finally just decide 2 nights prior to go ahead and get Memory Maker so I got online and added it to MDE. Imagine my surprise once I down loaded all of my PP and discovered that I didn't have access to the pp photo's on our first day here at AK. It seems that you have to order MM 3 days in advance. So Disney has hijacked my photo's unless I'm willing to pay an extra $30 for them. Which I was going to do since we had several great photo's and I had lost most of our own pics (more on this later). All our photo's we were taking were with our Droid phones and I quickly ran out of space on my phone. So after about 4 hr's I had to delete all my photo's from my phone to make room for more. After deleting these photo's I discovered that because Disney had horrible wifi that not all of those photo's had migrated to my One Drive cloud.
So I immediately log into Verizon and pay $10 to up my storage on their cloud to 1 TB to avoid this problem the rest of the trip.
Mark at the Tree of Life.
We Decided to walk through Dinoland to get to EE for my FP. I'm happy to finally get to experience this coaster. On our last visit EE was down when my FP time had come. This is the only coaster at Disney that I haven't ridden other than Barnstormer. Now I finally get to see what all of the fuss is about. The FP line went quick enough maybe 10 min's. I enjoyed my travel through the Himalaya's and then decide to explore it a little more with Marks FP. Mark has an inner ear issue and gets motion sick (that's why he drives everywhere), so I get to use his FP's on these type of rides. No complaints from me. I thought is was cute and had to take a picture that the interactive que recognized him, he wasn't aware that some of the que's did this.
Once I got to the front of the line I asked to sit in the front and they didn't mind at all letting me sit one out until the next one came. After meeting the Yeti face to face it was time to come down off the mountain. So what did I think of this coaster? It's OK, the front is definitely more fun, but now I can say that Space Mountain is my favorite Disney coaster. Sorry IMO Disney coasters just can't compete with the thrill of the coasters at Cedar Point in Sandusky OH. Love me a great thrilling coaster.
After barely escaping a Yeti attack I was famished and we were in need of some nourishment. So off to Yak and Yeti for some sustenance to help us endure the rest of our travels for the afternoon. We checked in for our ADR a few minutes early and were seated in about 5-10 min's. The hostess that sat us was the first to compliment me on my Carriage necklace for my Pick a Pearl from Epcot and our 2010 trip. Thanks to Su-Lynn @chunkymonkey for introducing this in her trip report. I got so many compliments on it while at Disney that I lost count.
photo from Amazon.com where I ordered it from.
First up was liquid libations. Mark ordered a Kingfisher Beer and I had the Emporer Margarita
For our food choice we split the Potstickers, Firecracker Shrimp and the Dragon Roll. These were all OK but all of the Panko crumbs that fell off the Dragon Roll and were left on the plate were super tasty. The shrimp were my fave.
With our belly's full it was onto discovering our next adventures. After our 2013 trip to Europe we now try to get pictures of Mark peaking out from various/neat doors. Here he is peaking around the Yak & Yeti door.
So what will our next adventure be stay tuned?
After checking into the condo and sorting through stuff it was off to our park of the day. We get back into the car and head out for our 15min trip to AK. Well it would have been 15 min's if Mark hadn't accidently turned onto Hotel Plaza Blvd, but a quick u turn and we were back on track. Between our phone navigation and all of the signs we easily found AK and those glorious mountains peaking out at us. I'm very excited to see Pandora. I loved the movie and have anxiously been awaiting to see Pandora for myself. I have been very good about avoiding any videos and most pictures of it here on the Dis, as I didn't want to spoil it. I actually did pretty good with that as many things were new to me.
The plans for today
EE FP 12:40-1:40pm
Yak & Yeti ADR 1:15pm
ROL FP 5:50-6:50
NRJ FP 6:50-7:50pm
We arrived at the parking booth a little after noon. The attendant asked us if we wanted standard parking or preferred parking. We knew standard parking was $20 but asked what preferred parking was. She said that you get to park within a 7 min walk to the entrance, you'll receive a free bottle of water and a free map. After I snorted out my chuckle Mark told her we would take standard parking. We parked and took the tram up to the front of the park. Mark texted me our location so we could find our car when leaving. We've had issues in the past remembering our location, but we did this throughout our trip and it worked well for us.
Todays temperatures had an expected high of 78F. I was so happy for these temps. The last time we were here Mark got very irritable with the heat in the 90's and we left the park after just a few hours to head back to AKL pool. Coming from Indy I was enjoying the feel of the sun on my skin once again. I love Indy but believe it or not I'm allergic to the cold and will break out in hives if my skin gets too cold. Even slipping under cold sheets will make me itch.
We arrived at the front of the park at 12:20pm we were bagless so we breezed into the park and waited in the short line in front of the Christmas tree for a PP photo.. We had finally just decide 2 nights prior to go ahead and get Memory Maker so I got online and added it to MDE. Imagine my surprise once I down loaded all of my PP and discovered that I didn't have access to the pp photo's on our first day here at AK. It seems that you have to order MM 3 days in advance. So Disney has hijacked my photo's unless I'm willing to pay an extra $30 for them. Which I was going to do since we had several great photo's and I had lost most of our own pics (more on this later). All our photo's we were taking were with our Droid phones and I quickly ran out of space on my phone. So after about 4 hr's I had to delete all my photo's from my phone to make room for more. After deleting these photo's I discovered that because Disney had horrible wifi that not all of those photo's had migrated to my One Drive cloud.
So I immediately log into Verizon and pay $10 to up my storage on their cloud to 1 TB to avoid this problem the rest of the trip.
Mark at the Tree of Life.
We Decided to walk through Dinoland to get to EE for my FP. I'm happy to finally get to experience this coaster. On our last visit EE was down when my FP time had come. This is the only coaster at Disney that I haven't ridden other than Barnstormer. Now I finally get to see what all of the fuss is about. The FP line went quick enough maybe 10 min's. I enjoyed my travel through the Himalaya's and then decide to explore it a little more with Marks FP. Mark has an inner ear issue and gets motion sick (that's why he drives everywhere), so I get to use his FP's on these type of rides. No complaints from me. I thought is was cute and had to take a picture that the interactive que recognized him, he wasn't aware that some of the que's did this.
Once I got to the front of the line I asked to sit in the front and they didn't mind at all letting me sit one out until the next one came. After meeting the Yeti face to face it was time to come down off the mountain. So what did I think of this coaster? It's OK, the front is definitely more fun, but now I can say that Space Mountain is my favorite Disney coaster. Sorry IMO Disney coasters just can't compete with the thrill of the coasters at Cedar Point in Sandusky OH. Love me a great thrilling coaster.
After barely escaping a Yeti attack I was famished and we were in need of some nourishment. So off to Yak and Yeti for some sustenance to help us endure the rest of our travels for the afternoon. We checked in for our ADR a few minutes early and were seated in about 5-10 min's. The hostess that sat us was the first to compliment me on my Carriage necklace for my Pick a Pearl from Epcot and our 2010 trip. Thanks to Su-Lynn @chunkymonkey for introducing this in her trip report. I got so many compliments on it while at Disney that I lost count.
photo from Amazon.com where I ordered it from. First up was liquid libations. Mark ordered a Kingfisher Beer and I had the Emporer Margarita
For our food choice we split the Potstickers, Firecracker Shrimp and the Dragon Roll. These were all OK but all of the Panko crumbs that fell off the Dragon Roll and were left on the plate were super tasty. The shrimp were my fave.
With our belly's full it was onto discovering our next adventures. After our 2013 trip to Europe we now try to get pictures of Mark peaking out from various/neat doors. Here he is peaking around the Yak & Yeti door.
So what will our next adventure be stay tuned?
Following along since I'm highly intrigued by your title!
Hi Lesley welcome. Thanks for the offer and I might PM you and take you up on the offer. I'm only missing the photos' from the first day so I'd probably be able to live w/o them.
